The Royal Observatory

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich is part of the Greenwich world heritage site and is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It is an ensemble of listed historic buildings and at the heart of it is a bronze clad cone shaped building located which houses the new planetarium. This small but impressive project by London based architects - Allies and Morrison - uses its abstract form to carefully insert itself into an otherwise highly contested historic site. Besides housing some new educational/exhibition facilities the project also upgrades the southern portion of the Royal Observatory site and reconfigures its landscape.

The Royal Observatory

How to get there?
The new extension to the Docklands Light Railway provides a frequent public transport link into Maritime Greenwich from -
* London (Bank), for the Underground
* Tower Gateway, (Tower of London)
* Lewisham, for South Eastern Trains service connections
* Stratford, for One Great Eastern, One Anglia and Silverlink trains
* Limehouse, for c2c Rail
Nearest DLR station to the Museum is Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich.